Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-27

have used well the business their tatner
| I; them. Returning TO tae hatl-s OF
rich men, it is interesl ing TO look st their
gsstrononic taste, and the New York
Cook lately had interviews with some OF
the most noted millionaires as 10 what
they ste and drank.
Jiy Gould's i&vorite dish is baked po-
tatoes. Think OF q man worth $500, OGO,-
600 preferring hsked potatoes over al
other viands. The poorest Irish peasant
can have as good food to eat, and al VI
G1uld's millions tickle his stomach no
more than if he were worth thousands.
Good milk, vegetables ard plain NEST
with little bit of cat meal IS all he eats
for breakfast, and he says he has never
lost his fopdness for the style OF food
which he used TO have on his fathers
farm. Russell Sage has breakfast OF
cracked wheat, g steak and baked
potato every morning before he
goes to work. He eats grIts
three hundred and sixty-fve days
in the year, and has baked apples half the
time. His dinner is msee up OF roast
beef with bread, butter and fruit, and his
supper is q chop, STEAK or boiled chicken
with potatoes and biscuits as trimmings.
He washes his dinner down with bottle
of clareG, and he aids the digestion Of his
breakfast with tablespoonful Of Bourbon
whiskeV in appollinaris. He drinks cof e
at breakfast and tee st supper, and be is
par icul8rly fond OF homemade bread,
upon which he likes an extra spread Of
honey over the butter.
CONGRESSMAN Scott of Pennsylvania,
who was worth $I5, Q00, 000, used eat y
uHcheOn Of oysters in the Restaurant Of
the House Of Representatives. He would
cook the oysters himself in a cha1Bg dish,
and il is said that he superinteDds ms
own cooking at his farm on the Maryland
coast.
william Il. Vanderbilt, who left $780,
600 600, liked roast beef and mutton,
medium well done. He was not FOND Il
grease, spices or rich favored cOndi-
ments, and it Wes his rule TO take g nap
before dinner. He Gid not smoke or chew
during his latter years and his strongest
drink was lemonade.
Ssm TildeU liks pie, and among his IA
vorites Wos that of rhubarb. He was FED
with spoon curing his cid ege, ana his
servant put the most delicious cream
upon the sour pie plant.
George ". Childs is another million
sire Wno uses neither in>OXicants nor to-
bacco. He likes fine dishes, and he has 3
good cook, but he eats plainly and his d.
5estion Is in good condition. His table
service is probably the finest in The
United States. II is made up OF choice
CHINA from all over the world. SevFes,
Worcester, Derby, Dresden and Minton
vie with the rarest productions OF China
and J span, snd it is said that one Of his
dinners 10 twenty persons brings out
china worth $4,000.
Young Ives, who lately failed for such
9 lsrge fortune, neither smoked nor drank
to excess, and the best OF our nilliOnsires
are not addicted to drinking. Mark
Twain does rot object TO champagne #
he bss to make an utter dinner speech,
out he says be cannot write well after
drinking He smokes, however, TO
excess and considers TOBACCO q good
slinulant.
The swell dinners Of our millionaires
cost high INTO the thousands, and some
With wines and fancy menus have cost
yearly 500 per plate. At some OF the
San Francisco dinners the menus are en-
graved on solid silver, and l have before
me the bill Ct fare which was served to
the President and others when they
attended the millionaire Tabor's second
wedding at Washington. Il was as
follows:
Blue Points
Clear Green Turtle.
Tomatoes. TerTIue &c Foies Gras. Celery.
BroiIed Snad. la Maitre d'HoteL
NJ lrcobYurner.
PHILADELPHIA Cspon, . la Go ard
Eillat Of Beef. lardeu wi n mushrooms.
SWeetb eads, 4 la Cont.
S ewed Diamond Back Terragin, in cases
Chateau LATTE.
Sorbar au VermouIb.
Carvas-Back Duck. Salade. Woodcock on
Toast.
OmeIet Souffle.
Jelly, Ia Macedoi e, GAtter n, ST. Honore.
Fruits Ices. Bon Bons.
French Coffee. Chartreuse.
The flowers used at this dinner cost
enough to keep laborer's family year
aid the poor Of New York could live on
what the rich throw sway.
Still some OF the richest Of rich men
eat but little of the dalnties they sit down
to. Gorge Peabody, who gave during
his life in London banquets FIR for king,
confined himself TO slice Of mutton AND
glass Of clsre5, and jay G uld's baked
potatoes fad their couuter part in the
chopped beefsteak aud wesk tes which
John ". Mackey cas- at dinner. MsckeY
With sll his mill rs is simple in his hSc-
its an it is his wife THAI wears the DE-
m0nds Speas ing Of Peabody he was not
fond of swslry snd he would not wear
even q gold watch chain, while his STUDS
I'd cuff buttons were OF
pesrI OF ivory. The million
aire Stanford has pair Of black rub
her ye-gIssses which he uses in the
place Of gold ones and he says that
msn can get ali the necessities Of life for
II snillings a week. PesbOdy's personal
expenses during his latter days did not
av rage more thar $4,000 year, and the
oh Cincinnati millionaire LongWorth is
sas d TO have dressed like a coachmau and
did not care for appearances. L)Dgworth
vas fo1d of fine wines. he had cellars
which would contain 500 000 bottles, al
ne once gave $4,000 as premium for i'm
pyovements in the production of the Cs-
tswba grape. He had fue summer resi-
derce in the midst of his vineyard and he
left fortune of SIS 000,00 when he
died. FRANK u. CARPENTER.
Tho Chances of LAfs.
Philadelphia Call.